Science and SciFi
Reblogged from The Endeavour by J. D. Cook. The Airy functions Ai(x) and Bi(x) are independent solutions to the differential equation For negative x they act something like sin(x) and cos(x). For positive x they act something like exp(x)… Read More »Relating Airy and Bessel functions
I was talking to some students the other day (actually… a couple of months ago… ahem…), they had some questions about some problems on linear algebra and after a short while it became clear that… Read More »Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues
I could not help smiling widely as I was leaving that shop earlier on today… Why? Well, I was there to buy some bits and pieces. I arrived listening to some music and once inside… Read More »I’m a doctor… just not a medical one…
Continuing with the tradition of celebrating scientists birthdays, Google has marked Erwin Schrödinger’s anniversary with a Schrödinger Cat doodle. Erwing Schrödinger was born on August 12th, 1887 in Vienna, Austria. He developed fundamental results in… Read More »Schrödinger Cat Doodle
Further to my previous post about Gmail, I noticed earlier in the week that I was missing a number of contacts in my phone. “Surely I did not delete them, did I?” I thought… Checked… Read More »Syncing Gmail contacts to iPhone or iPad
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS AN ENTRY PROVIDING INFORMATION IN THE HOPE IT MAY HELP. I CANNOT HELP YOU WITH SPECIFIC PROBLEMS WITH YOUR ACCOUNT. I recently got a very annoying error message in an… Read More »Fixing Gmail incorrect password/user error (iPhone and iPad)
This is a reblog/translation of a post by Héctor García… During the 80s in the United States, Japan was started to be seen as the inevitable first economic power of the world. It went from… Read More »Neuromancer – Japanese words…
Time flies, time is money, time is a wise counsellor, time is relative, time is… very hard to define. Paraphrasing St Augustine I can say that I know what time is if no one asks… Read More »Backwards and Forwards in Time
I first heard this in a talk by Miguel Alonso in the School on Modern Optics at INAOE earlier on in May. I still think it is hilarious… seriously hilarious… It turns out that in… Read More »“Death Ray” in Las Vegas – or the Hottest Spot in Las Vegas Strip
